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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Penn Reading Project Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity...
by Edward Potts Cheyney
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Following his retirement from teaching in 1934, Edward Potts Cheyney was invited by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to write a history of the University in celebration of its bicentennial. Cheyney completed the project, published as the present work, in 1940. This, then, is his history of the University of Pennsylvania from its founding to its bicentennial anniversary.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, Volume 1
Building an Empire, 1846-1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
"Do not think of the Pennsylvania Railroad as a business enterprise," Forbes magazine informed its readers in May 1936. "Think of it as a nation." At the end of the nineteenth century, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the largest privately owned business corporation in the world....
As American as Shoofly Pie
The Foodlore and Fakelore of Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
When visitors travel to Pennsylvania Dutch Country, they are encouraged to consume the local culture by way of "regional specialties" such as cream-filled whoopie pies and deep-fried fritters of every variety. Yet many of the dishes and confections visitors have come to expect from the region...
The Philadelphia Negro
A Social Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those...
Brothers, Sing On!
My Half-Century Around the World with the Penn Glee Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In 1862, a group of undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania put the University's colors of red and blue in their buttonholes and gave the first performance of the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club. Ninety-four years later, in 1956, Bruce Montgomery became the Glee Club's director and brought...
William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
On March 5, 1681, one day after receiving his royal charter for Pennsylvania, William Penn wrote that he believed God would make his colony "the seed of the nation." Penn wanted his Pennsylvania to be a land where people of differing languages and customs could live together, where men and...
Frontier Country
The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
In Frontier Country, Patrick Spero addresses one of the most important and controversial subjects in American history: the frontier. Countering the modern conception of the American frontier as an area of expansion, Spero employs the eighteenth-century meaning of the term to show how colonists understood...
The University and Urban Revival
Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards....
The Birth of the Grand Old Party
The Republicans' First Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The period from 1850 to 1876 was the most transformative era in American history. During the course of this tumultuous quarter century Americans fought a bloody civil war, tried to settle the issue of state versus central government power, recognized the dominance of the new industrial economy over...
Becoming Penn
The Pragmatic American University, 1950-2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities, Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar redevelopment and expansion of urban universities,...
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3
Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748-1757
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Described as "a harmonious human multitude," Ben Franklin's life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even today, the epitome of the self-made man. Born into a humble tradesman's family, this adaptable genius rose to become an architect of the world's first democracy,...
Sister Carrie
The Pennsylvania Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The Sister Carrie edition that was published in 1900, long regarded as a watershed work in American fiction, was actually a censored misrepresentation of Drieser's original story. When, 80 years later, the Pennsylvania Edition first appeared, replete with scholarly apparatus, it was hailed from coast...
Frank Furness
Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together...